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  • Non-volatile memory's future is in software

    Specification efforts by the bigiwgs of the server, storage and software industry will soon allow OSes and applications to recognize and take full advantage of new non-volatile memory.

  • Symantec releases next-gen email archiving software

    Symantec today announced its next-generation email and content archiving software, Enterprise Vault 10, which now purports to automatically classify email content and metadata and assign the appropriate archiving and retention policy to it.

  • Compressed data search tech goes mainstream

    After selling its data compression and search technology to the auto industry for six years, WindSpring is eyeing the storage market with a search engine that can find information while the data is still compressed.

  • Symantec unveils SaaS storage products

    At its Visions 2011 conference in Las Vegas this week, Symantec announced plans to offer its midrange backup and enterprise-class archive software products as SaaS offerings.

  • Researchers use disk frag to hide data

    Researchers released a paper detailing how to hide data from prying legal eyes by exploiting disk fragmentation on a clustered file system, thereby hiding it in plain site.

  • Yahoo working on Hadoop MapReduce 2

    The <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/hadoop/posts/2011/03/mapreduce-nextgen-scheduler/">next generation of Apache Hadoop</a> , the software implementation that allows batch processing of petabytes of data, is expected out this year, says a <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9156378/Yahoo_update">Yahoo</a> executive.

  • HP upgrades SANs, management software

    Hewlett-Packard today announced several product upgrades for its small and mid-sized customers, including a new version of its modular storage array with 10Gbit/sec. Ethernet ports.

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